Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..

Backgammon :: Backgammon (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first table..

Digamma :: Digamma (n.) A letter (/, /) of the Greek alphabet, which early fell into disuse..

Digammate :: Digammate (a.) Alt. of Digammate.

Digammated :: Digammated (a.) Having the digamma or its representative letter or sound; as, the Latin word vis is a digammated form of the Greek /..

Gamma :: Gamma (n.) The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet..

Gammadion :: Gammadion (n.) A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot..

Gammer :: Gammer (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man..

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) Backgammon.

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his men or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron..

Gammoned :: Gammoned (imp. & p. p.) of Gammo.

Gammoning :: Gammoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gammo.

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.

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